Speaker 1: And That's what you Really missed with Jenna.
Speaker 2: And Kevin and iHeartRadio podcast.
Speaker 3: Welcome to When That's What You Really miss podcast Yest
Speaker 3: Part two, Brooke Lifton is back because we just we
Speaker 3: couldn't get enough.
Speaker 2: No, I mean, there's so many questions I wanted to
Speaker 2: talk about Bohemian Rhapsody. We need to talk about some
Speaker 2: of the most challenging numbers, some of the best numbers.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 2: So this is part two with our conversation with Brooke Lifton.
Speaker 3: Let's talk about that second tour, because that second tour
Speaker 3: was really big and there was no break, and we learned.
Speaker 1: That in two days.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Sure, you guys had had it set for us by
Speaker 3: the time we got there. We each had somebody who
Speaker 3: had learned our entire track written in a notebook for
Speaker 3: us with highlighters and markers, and then taught it to us.
Speaker 3: But you guys had to do that. You set up
Speaker 3: an entire like arena tour without any of us there.
Speaker 5: Zach was in Vegas before we finished. We were finished rapped,
Speaker 5: that's right.
Speaker 3: And I remember staring at you guys like you guys
Speaker 3: were like, Okay, now we're going to show you what
Speaker 3: the number is, and then you're going to do it.
Speaker 3: And all of us with our gurk jaws on the ground,
Speaker 3: were like half awake, like yeah, but it was the
Speaker 3: most brilliant plan you'd ever made.
Speaker 5: It, honestly, Like and again, I think that was always
Speaker 5: just I mean, I'm taking all credit for everything because
Speaker 5: I'm here, but you know, it was all zach No.
Speaker 5: But and again, like he taught me everything, he taught
Speaker 5: me how to. I didn't know what a one liner
Speaker 5: was when we started the show because I never I
Speaker 5: was like, what's this. That's still his favorite thing is
Speaker 5: that I didn't know? And I was like, but as
Speaker 5: a dancer, you're a treated like an actor, you know,
Speaker 5: you just get handed in, here's your day to show up.
Speaker 5: But he was always so ahead of everything. So yeah,
Speaker 5: we were finishing up. We were down in Long Beach
Speaker 5: shooting one of our you know whatever they're called regional
Speaker 5: section or something, you know, and then we had five
Speaker 5: groups there because we still had like you know, oral
Speaker 5: intensity and whatever else and everything else that was going on. Oh,
Speaker 5: we got the names. Those were always our favorite. How
Speaker 5: about that we had falcons in numbers, like we had
Speaker 5: a whole number with falcons, like what Ribbons and the
Speaker 5: dancers had falcons? Sorry, Okay, I just so off track.
Speaker 5: So we're finishing off and I remember it's like we're
Speaker 5: on set still talking about stuff because he's now working
Speaker 5: getting the playlist and getting all that sent up. I
Speaker 5: then show up in Vegas with him, We bring in
Speaker 5: the dancers and that's when we had the dance. That's
Speaker 5: really when a lot of the skeleton crews started to
Speaker 5: kind of happen that we did this whole skeleton So
Speaker 5: we had what four guys four girls on that tour,
Speaker 5: and so we kind of like faked doubled because did
Speaker 5: every everyone did?
Speaker 2: Did you guys all have people? Because there were twelve
Speaker 2: of us in the show. I think we each had
Speaker 2: a person we did?
Speaker 3: Oh mine was Courtney Oh then did yeah?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah we had that. We had more dancers on
Speaker 5: that one. Yeah, because yeah Hannah Brittany really yeah, there
Speaker 5: was a lot more. So yeah, we had enough that
Speaker 5: you guys all did that stuff. Oh and we were
Speaker 5: ruthless with them because we had to do the whole tour.
Speaker 5: We actually had I think a week with them in Vegas,
Speaker 5: so we had a week to put together, which is
Speaker 5: not very long either like a week to put on
Speaker 5: a world tour is not.
Speaker 2: I still don't know, Like like we showed up and
Speaker 2: there's a stage there, there was a set list, were
Speaker 2: obviously like when did these meetings happen? They're like Liz
Speaker 2: decided this set and the staging like what how did
Speaker 2: this hap?
Speaker 5: Can we talk about how? Okay, so let's go back
Speaker 5: and so as this is all happening, then they're doing
Speaker 5: this whole tour. I mean this sort of stuff again,
Speaker 5: these are like these meetings and emails that are happy beforehand.
Speaker 5: Zach is also doing the Glee Project. Oh yeah, so
Speaker 5: if you guys though they used to so when we
Speaker 5: did the pilot, I don't know if you guys also
Speaker 5: remember we shot like our days off. Weard Monday Tuesday
Speaker 5: because to get sort of in schools on the weekends
Speaker 5: more beneficial. So like you we would shoot like let's
Speaker 5: say Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday Sunday that you have off
Speaker 5: two days of the week instead of Saturday, you know, weekend.
Speaker 5: So similar with like Lee project is they need to
Speaker 5: get into schools, but they because it was reality, they
Speaker 5: worked six days out of the week and if they
Speaker 5: needed to get into a high school. They would go
Speaker 5: in at four in the morning or four in the
Speaker 5: afternoon and shoot to like four in the morning. So
Speaker 5: there were times where like I he would just leave
Speaker 5: me and he's like, Okay, you have the day. But
Speaker 5: then also I was like you need to you need
Speaker 5: to stop. He's like, no, I need to get back.
Speaker 5: And so like he would do like thirty six hour days,
Speaker 5: crazy amount of days. And it wasn't just like oh,
Speaker 5: I have to be there and do what you're behind
Speaker 5: the screen. It's reality and he was alam he was
Speaker 5: on camera, so you're now sitting there like watching commenting.
Speaker 5: So there would so now think of the music videos
Speaker 5: or just think of the A number we would shoot
Speaker 5: in a hallway. Great, well it was a contest, so
Speaker 5: let's say it was you know, Kevin, it was your turn. Well,
Speaker 5: then they would give Jenna the same role to do
Speaker 5: and we would shoot Kevin doing it like Kevin. Then
Speaker 5: it would be Jenna. Then everyone would shoot like same
Speaker 5: portion of the video because it was like think of
Speaker 5: it as like I don't know what an other show.
Speaker 5: It's like a top model, you know, like everyone have
Speaker 5: the same photo shoot, but everyone would have the same
Speaker 5: music video part and then they would compare them how
Speaker 5: they did it, so it's not like, oh, they just
Speaker 5: let everyone do that. Then Zach and Robert are standing
Speaker 5: there on set going, oh, yeah, I think you know,
Speaker 5: Kevin did a great job. I don't know, He's really not,
Speaker 5: like no, So he was literally doing our normal job
Speaker 5: and commenting I am being on video and doing that
Speaker 5: at four am in the morning and then coming back
Speaker 5: and then prepping for like tours. Yeah, like the band
Speaker 5: deserves like like I don't know, his house painted and gold,
Speaker 5: like I mean truly what the amount that and things
Speaker 5: that he did and took on all that responsibility and
Speaker 5: because Ryan and them wanted it had to come from him.
Speaker 5: You know. It's like they they wanted him, wanted the
Speaker 5: costumes from Lou, they wanted you know, the dance from Zach.
Speaker 5: They wanted the music right away. So it was the
Speaker 5: amount of shuffling and prepping and all those things. But yeah,
Speaker 5: to get that, and then that's why we made the
Speaker 5: I mean we call them the dancer Bibles, is that
Speaker 5: they needed to know every single track because it was
Speaker 5: it's like you have to have everything written down. So
Speaker 5: their playbooks were like what I used to do for
Speaker 5: all the numbers. So that's why it would be like, here,
Speaker 5: you show this stuff, but you guys were hilarious because
Speaker 5: you didn't really even look at your your dancer Bible
Speaker 5: because you would walk in and basically just like you
Speaker 5: just need to be shown it. So they had these
Speaker 5: massive things, but then they also had the entire show
Speaker 5: their own show, right they needed to know. So that's
Speaker 5: why it was like, you guys have to have them
Speaker 5: down pat so because when once they're in, now we
Speaker 5: can get you guys doing what you're doing.
Speaker 2: I mean, for the record, I did look at my Bible.
Speaker 2: It was so like, out of respect, at a minimum,
Speaker 2: I need to read through this entire thing. But we
Speaker 2: knew it. It was so smart because then we basically
Speaker 2: had the show up in two days, yeah, which is cool.
Speaker 5: And then that's where so talking about going into production later,
Speaker 5: now you're talking about season six shooting Glee. You guys
Speaker 5: are now again all over the place the way shooting
Speaker 5: and the scenes started getting with so many different storylines
Speaker 5: and so many different cities, and we never got everybody together.
Speaker 5: So we really started using the skeleton crew and that
Speaker 5: that became part of almost like a budget necessity. So
Speaker 5: we would talk to Kieren and kind of like at
Speaker 5: the beginning of you know, after we do the episode
Speaker 5: and be like, Okay, well, how many skeleton do we
Speaker 5: need or like how many skeleton can we figure out
Speaker 5: for this number and do certain things like that, because
Speaker 5: it was just it was almost impossible, and they knew
Speaker 5: how it worked and knew how well that we could
Speaker 5: do that, you know, yeah, which was crazy.
Speaker 2: Now at some point it was the season four you
Speaker 2: became head choreographer.
Speaker 4: The season five five five, maybe maybe the hardest thing
Speaker 4: ever because that was well, unfortunately it was. It was
Speaker 4: a really hard summer anyway, because that was you know,
Speaker 4: we came in and we lost Corey, and we were
Speaker 4: all devastated. And I would say a week before he passed,
Speaker 4: I was already in conversations about moving forward and coming.
Speaker 5: In and and then basically those conversations almost like had
Speaker 5: to come to a halt because it's like, wait, we're
Speaker 5: worried about We're worried about if I'm coming back and
Speaker 5: have a contract, you know, like like we just lost
Speaker 5: our we just lost our heart, you know, and so
Speaker 5: you know, for me, it was really no choice, Like
Speaker 5: I wanted to be there. I wanted to keep that
Speaker 5: going on, Like it's always my feeling. It's like I
Speaker 5: never want to Zach to go away. You know. Obviously
Speaker 5: he got a movie and and did you know, just
Speaker 5: had to go off. But yeah, I felt like that
Speaker 5: that year was And at the same time, obviously lou
Speaker 5: was doing so many other works with Ryan, like she
Speaker 5: would kind of come in and maybe do a little
Speaker 5: bit of supervision with things. But it was really not
Speaker 5: like we had different costume designers come in and we
Speaker 5: had different we had Robert was there, and then we
Speaker 5: had new set, we had new production like, we just
Speaker 5: had lots of new and I felt like we got
Speaker 5: into that first meeting and it was like we were yes.
Speaker 5: Like I was like, we're going to fail, like and
Speaker 5: they're looking to us. They're looking to us to fail
Speaker 5: and not in not in the worst way, but it
Speaker 5: was the first time. Now I'm in the meeting and
Speaker 5: I'm sitting there at the production table and they were
Speaker 5: shooting off notes and I remember so Dante Dealer, I
Speaker 5: know afterwards, came up to me. It was so impressed
Speaker 5: because I don't need to look when I write, like
Speaker 5: I mean, I do. I love to but like I
Speaker 5: can put on I can put on makeup without looking
Speaker 5: in the mirror. It's like I know where my eyes are,
Speaker 5: Like I know what I'm doing. So as Ryan's like
Speaker 5: giving me these notes, I'm staring at him and I
Speaker 5: don't look away, and I'm just I'm just writing and
Speaker 5: I'm just writing and I'm just going on huh and
Speaker 5: I'm like staring and I was like, I'm not I'm
Speaker 5: not going to I'm not to look away. And I
Speaker 5: was like and now I'm like still shooting my pants,
Speaker 5: like still like going okay, okay. And it was just
Speaker 5: it was a tough one. I mean we were we
Speaker 5: were singing and go karts right, and we're dealing with
Speaker 5: Dalton still, which is you know, where the Warblers were,
Speaker 5: and like there was just so many mechanics of it
Speaker 5: and I just kind of like knew we were going
Speaker 5: to fail. But like at the same time, you know,
Speaker 5: then you have Robert and who now I'm working with
Speaker 5: someone new with costs, you would be like, okay, and
Speaker 5: we need this and we need this and we need
Speaker 5: like you know, we both again they're trying to support
Speaker 5: each other to be like hey, we're look at all
Speaker 5: these new little Fish at the top. Even though we
Speaker 5: know what we're doing, we're just still now we just
Speaker 5: have a new title, and it was like, Okay, we
Speaker 5: got this, Like I know, we got this. So it
Speaker 5: was it was fun. It was different though that year
Speaker 5: was really different. Anyway, it was a whole lot. It
Speaker 5: was a whole lot less of those big numbers. I
Speaker 5: think one of my favorite numbers was Janet Jackson when
Speaker 5: we got to do in the Warehouse, like we just
Speaker 5: back law. I know you guys hated the puppets, but
Speaker 5: I mean honestly to watch the product, but well yeah,
Speaker 5: because we did the Fox and and that was also
Speaker 5: that was like nine songs later, Like it wasn't just
Speaker 5: oh we settled on it. It was like finally like
Speaker 5: it was like we're just doing it. It's like okay,
Speaker 5: poor Paul, like the Paul mccrane one of the like amazing.
Speaker 5: So that episode alone we had these puppets, we had
Speaker 5: then the Fox, we had Nat and Jane do a
Speaker 5: black and white number. We did the Jet like that
Speaker 5: was all once. That was one episode, so it was
Speaker 5: like my one of my favorite but to have to
Speaker 5: choreograph twelve puppets in a room, but can't but can't
Speaker 5: be seen because they're just twelve hands. And so we
Speaker 5: had to move, we had to build the furniture and
Speaker 5: do all these things. And these puppeteers who are now
Speaker 5: craws like the most talented things because they're making their
Speaker 5: eyes and fingers and wiggle a movement and dancing and
Speaker 5: then they have to get up on the piano and
Speaker 5: this one's laughing at that one, and then having to
Speaker 5: figure out how to shoot it. I mean, there's some
Speaker 5: brilliant pictures. There's like this picture like me and Paul
Speaker 5: and we're staring and we're looking just at like two pupius.
Speaker 6: Like so seriously, so serious and like and again, you
Speaker 6: guys weren't in that one with Darren in the classroom,
Speaker 6: but but you feel like you were because it was
Speaker 6: like your voices and your faces, but it.
Speaker 5: Like that was Actually it feels so successful when you
Speaker 5: do it, you know. I think that's also part of
Speaker 5: the stuff, is like you do this stuff and you're like,
Speaker 5: we did that.
Speaker 2: I mean literally, it's like how to do this and
Speaker 2: we figured it out right?
Speaker 5: Yeah, because we did all that. We had we had
Speaker 5: the vocal adrenaline, we had them on silks and different things.
Speaker 5: We did stilt, we did fire, we did motorcycles. We said,
Speaker 5: we did water the rain like we did.
Speaker 1: Like tarzan ropes we did.
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, oh roar, yes, and tarzan ropes in
Speaker 5: all of them we put it. We put that same
Speaker 5: We put that same rope in New York. So like
Speaker 5: when they were in the apartment loft, we roared in
Speaker 5: there too, Oh my gosh. Like there was just the
Speaker 5: the fun and the silly, like that's the whole thing.
Speaker 5: It was like fun and silly, and it's like what
Speaker 5: else can we do? Like can we do this? Yes?
Speaker 5: We can? I mean we can and we will and
Speaker 5: we want them on go karts, singing in a in
Speaker 5: a circle, sure, and on I mean, do you remember
Speaker 5: when we shot at the fair and you guys were
Speaker 5: in the like roundabout saying.
Speaker 1: Have anything, okay, so much fun.
Speaker 2: But you also people were.
Speaker 5: Well so but you so you have to remember though,
Speaker 5: well or not remember, but no, but like we have
Speaker 5: to go and scout that stuff. So like we went
Speaker 5: to a fair two weeks before.
Speaker 2: That and I was five time.
Speaker 5: That's the same when you're doing when you're doing all
Speaker 5: this stuff, Oh emotion emotion, emotion, emotion, like that's when
Speaker 5: we that's when we leave, like we do, or we
Speaker 5: do those scouts at eight o'clock in the morning and
Speaker 5: you go and you said, and so like I was
Speaker 5: up in those things like fifty times, because I I'd
Speaker 5: be up there and like, look, you guys, we're going
Speaker 5: to do things like this, and we're going to do
Speaker 5: things like this, and so you would have to like
Speaker 5: show and demonstrate or then talk or then when you
Speaker 5: guys were up there, I mean I remember being like
Speaker 5: fill me, like come on, like I.
Speaker 2: Did some cheerleader.
Speaker 5: But that's what the That was the fun part too.
Speaker 5: It's like it is fun to be the cheer later.
Speaker 5: It's so fun to like, I don't know again, loving
Speaker 5: what I do, loving to make people dance, and then
Speaker 5: loving making you guys look good and have fun and
Speaker 5: you know, the magic and the magic working with camera
Speaker 5: and working with Andrew and working with Corey. I mean,
Speaker 5: I don't know if you guys remember, but when April
Speaker 5: roads and she did when they did home that last number,
Speaker 5: and so you had to do oh gosh, and so
Speaker 5: doing nothing. But we had duty and we had Correy
Speaker 5: on the crane and the so it's so it's worth
Speaker 5: you know, it's it's like the crew danced with us.
Speaker 5: So the crew learning how to like take the crane
Speaker 5: shot and twist it in and roll back and then
Speaker 5: like moving. And I remember like they filmed and the
Speaker 5: whole crew stopped and like standing ovation and through clapped
Speaker 5: for like two minutes because of like what the crew,
Speaker 5: how the crew was dancing to make that so beautiful
Speaker 5: on set, like and that that was just so fun.
Speaker 5: It was so fun playing with everybody and watching everyone
Speaker 5: dance behind us.
Speaker 3: And Penny and Andrew and like it just felt like
Speaker 3: everybody was like a part of it.
Speaker 7: Okay, tell us favorite numbers. So some of the amazing
Speaker 7: favorite We did the rotating room with Matt and Jama.
Speaker 5: So part of also this stuff is that we never
Speaker 5: we never had any help to do that. So it
Speaker 5: wasn't till after we did that rotating I mean our
Speaker 5: reference videos were like dancing on the ceiling like Lionel Ritchie.
Speaker 5: You know, that was like the same same sort of
Speaker 5: a box. I think I think Derek wanted Emmy for
Speaker 5: his rotating room. Like the year after we did our rotating.
Speaker 2: Room, you guys for the Emmys I don't think that
Speaker 2: they knew like what they were looking at.
Speaker 5: No excuses, no excuses. But they've now finally divided up
Speaker 5: scripted and reality. So that's that's one big thing. Because
Speaker 5: when it was Glee, it was just so you think
Speaker 5: can dance, So everybody was doing duets, which they were
Speaker 5: beautiful and they're fantastically. You have two professional dancers. It's
Speaker 5: like if you had dancing with the stories convenient against
Speaker 5: so you think you dance. It's like if you put
Speaker 5: the two pros next to the two like it's just different.
Speaker 8: Like you and a billion Emmys, Well that would be fun,
Speaker 8: but you know, they're just we had a billion more
Speaker 8: laughs with you guys, which is so much worth it.
Speaker 5: So that one was incredible because and I don't know
Speaker 5: if you guys remember Sarah who was our second ad,
Speaker 5: who basically was second ad at thet Lee meant dance department,
Speaker 5: vast apartment, and scheduling like hers scheduling was was to
Speaker 5: schedule her schedules. So we had an empty box and
Speaker 5: we had to design where the furniture was going, and
Speaker 5: we had to design when it was going to rotate
Speaker 5: and how it but it was an empty box and
Speaker 5: so the first thing then it was like, okay, well
Speaker 5: she's standing there like videotaping, and then it was like
Speaker 5: do I So she figured out that if she turned
Speaker 5: with the box and like she would like hold it,
Speaker 5: we could then see what it would look like being.
Speaker 1: Flat like the way we see it.
Speaker 5: So just that mechanic. We sat on a Saturday, I
Speaker 5: think for like hours, just sliding, just sliding in a
Speaker 5: box to the point where then we got home and
Speaker 5: like you know our phone calls that happened as soon
Speaker 5: as we got home and Zach's like, I can't stand up,
Speaker 5: and I'm like and then like my kitchen's falling, my
Speaker 5: kitchen's falling. All you did was just that you had
Speaker 5: like the worst vertigo that it was. I literally like
Speaker 5: you're holding onto the wall and you're like, I'm standing
Speaker 5: perfectly fine. And we did that for they had that
Speaker 5: thing in there for a few uh. That was one
Speaker 5: of the longest numbers we did, like a week or two,
Speaker 5: because then that they would build furniture and then they
Speaker 5: would have to like concrete it in and then hang
Speaker 5: from it. Yeah, and then we'd have to just figure
Speaker 5: out how to slide and move and like those were
Speaker 5: some of those numbers where you're like, can we just
Speaker 5: film it? Like not that it wasn't, but we had
Speaker 5: so much fun playing and doing it, and like we
Speaker 5: and really had to dance and create it. And we
Speaker 5: did that. Like there was a few numbers that Zach
Speaker 5: and I just would dance all day long, just the
Speaker 5: two of us, and it was so fun. It just
Speaker 5: reminded us of like dancing and like we would slow
Speaker 5: dance and move and I was like, can this can
Speaker 5: this be our number for some like do you need
Speaker 5: some random people? Or like even when we did Saturday
Speaker 5: Night Fever, which was such a like we just had
Speaker 5: We were such in this like seventies group of like
Speaker 5: discoing and like all day we would just be dancing
Speaker 5: and like, oh, we have to now teach it to people,
Speaker 5: But like that was pretty that was pretty like phenomenal
Speaker 5: and fun and crazy to like to and play and
Speaker 5: like I feel like those like creating those and that's
Speaker 5: and that's part of the whole thing, is like what
Speaker 5: can't we do? We've done We've done everything. Yeah, I
Speaker 5: mean there's definitely the least favorites. You know too, you
Speaker 5: already mentioned it. I mean you mentioned some of them,
Speaker 5: but like there are times when we didn't have any time,
Speaker 5: like when we were in the park, when we were
Speaker 5: in the parking lot and we never got to finish.
Speaker 5: We just never got to finish and we never got
Speaker 5: I mean kind of it's like it's done.
Speaker 2: I guess we didn't.
Speaker 5: Like that's just those like that stuff was just hard obviously,
Speaker 5: like you know when you had songs like the Fox
Speaker 5: or things like, you know, like this is hard. But
Speaker 5: I mean, I think I think, honestly, one of my
Speaker 5: hardests was our first the first time I did like
Speaker 5: sectionals or regionals with you guys. It was just just me.
Speaker 5: And when I talked about that season of like season
Speaker 5: of fail, h, we did not have good.
Speaker 1: Songs that in America and like.
Speaker 5: It was very there was like it was maybe like
Speaker 5: Boston song, uh.
Speaker 3: More than a feeling America and one other America was
Speaker 3: a weird choice. It was it was just I haven't
Speaker 3: found No that's later, that's later.
Speaker 2: That was it.
Speaker 5: I still haven't found what I'm looking for. Maybe it was.
Speaker 1: No season no, no, no, it was definitely season five.
Speaker 1: Still haven't found.
Speaker 2: Yo in America and more than a feeling.
Speaker 1: More than a feeling, yeah, it's a mess.
Speaker 5: That that made me cry. Like that was like that
Speaker 5: was like really really hard and literally.
Speaker 2: I really enjoyed doing those, but like we had fun
Speaker 2: doing it. Yeah, we did, sure, probably.
Speaker 5: Because I didn't give you that many things to do,
Speaker 5: because like how we couldn't dance. But like that same
Speaker 5: that same, that same competition, we had the Amazonians and
Speaker 5: they were all supposed to be six feet tall. So
Speaker 5: I did hire almost all emails that were at least
Speaker 5: like six like five nine, five ten, as many like
Speaker 5: five eleven, and the really sets and the really tall hats,
Speaker 5: and then I secretly secretly had three guys in the
Speaker 5: numbers and but no, but at the time, like now,
Speaker 5: you would have just had the guys in because it
Speaker 5: would have been totally acceptable and fun. But I had
Speaker 5: to convince them. I was like I need these guys,
Speaker 5: and they're like you know, and I'm like, no, these
Speaker 5: guys dance and heels and they dance and do all
Speaker 5: this stuff and they're great, and like so we just
Speaker 5: hid them, and they were just so I could have
Speaker 5: these like fantastic dancers that would be up in there.
Speaker 1: God, that's so funny.
Speaker 5: But like really hard and really fun. Was like obviously
Speaker 5: doing Madonna and everyone talks about Vogue and it was like, oh,
Speaker 5: this is fantastic, but you have to so there's a
Speaker 5: video like so I'm doing every single like I broke
Speaker 5: down every single pose for Jane, but you have to
Speaker 5: remember that a music like that is just an edit. Yes,
Speaker 5: so they just did they just did their hundred shots
Speaker 5: and they went this shot, this shot, this shot, this
Speaker 5: shot shot, but we have to take an edit to
Speaker 5: make it. So she had to learn a whole dance
Speaker 5: of edits of so like the impossible, you don't like
Speaker 5: it was great and fantastic, but it wasn't like, oh,
Speaker 5: we're learning a dance. That was the one that was
Speaker 5: the one time that we just took to take, you know,
Speaker 5: take for take. Ryan wanted to take from take and
Speaker 5: funny story about that. So one of our dancers, Derek Bullock,
Speaker 5: his like he was like, this is my dream I've
Speaker 5: always like would love like what on tour with Madonna.
Speaker 5: Now you know it's off there dancing and doing it.
Speaker 5: But it was like, you know, you kind like those
Speaker 5: are those fun things like oh, not not that I
Speaker 5: gave him anything. That's like I gave you your first Madonna job,
Speaker 5: but not your first fake Madonna job. You know, like
Speaker 5: the people who like fake Brittany, who like eventually then
Speaker 5: like later go and dance for Brittany and then it's like, oh,
Speaker 5: we're doing fun stuff here.
Speaker 2: But like that was we had Brittany on for you.
Speaker 5: It was great. She wasn't really around, like again, I
Speaker 5: was in rehearsal, so like she came, They're like Brittany's
Speaker 5: on set, and I was like great. I like hey,
Speaker 5: just like hey, It's like okay, I gotta go back
Speaker 5: to it, you know, Like it was just that was
Speaker 5: a big episode. Like that was a big one because
Speaker 5: we you know, Heather was doing everything, and then we
Speaker 5: also had kids in those numbers, so like we had
Speaker 5: kid hours and doing those things. But it was fun
Speaker 5: because we also was like it was fun Britney stuff.
Speaker 5: Like it was just like it's fun to kick up
Speaker 5: the leaves and be like Madonna, you know, do the
Speaker 5: music video and and you know, I mean, I feel
Speaker 5: like I've had some pretty amazing iconic jobs like that
Speaker 5: in the sense of like where I'm still like I'm
Speaker 5: just still so protective of it, Like I'm still so
Speaker 5: protective of leave like I don't. I can't if anyone
Speaker 5: says anything bad about it's like you weren't there. You
Speaker 5: don't get it, you don't understand, like you be in
Speaker 5: that circle, criticize what you want, but it's like you
Speaker 5: don't get how cool it was. Same thing with Brittany,
Speaker 5: like when everyone talks about her does things, I feel
Speaker 5: so protective and I like I still want to, like
Speaker 5: I want to hug her, and I just go like
Speaker 5: do you want to dance to get like I just
Speaker 5: want to protect and take care of these people and
Speaker 5: you know, family, like family, and like leave everybody alone,
Speaker 5: like just being so judgmental and stop criticize like when people.
Speaker 5: It also taught me to not criticize things anymore as
Speaker 5: much too, like when you're like, how did you how
Speaker 5: do you not have an emmy? How do you not have? Well?
Speaker 5: I also when I see something else, I go, Okay,
Speaker 5: well what did they have to go through? Or was
Speaker 5: that as hard as I've had to do mine? Or wow,
Speaker 5: I feel congratulations you had seventy five fantastic dancers on
Speaker 5: that set. That's so great that you had that opportunity.
Speaker 5: Like I look at it differently as as great congratulate
Speaker 5: people who get to get everything, because it's a lot
Speaker 5: harder to work with fifteen people who've never danced in
Speaker 5: a room before. But also that's the beauty. It's like,
Speaker 5: have anyone come tell me they can't dance? It's bullshit, right,
Speaker 5: like every time someone's like I can't dance them, like really.
Speaker 2: Which we had some fan questions and a lot of
Speaker 2: them were about just that. But I think this is
Speaker 2: the easiest way to put it, the best way. Someone
Speaker 2: asked who improved the most as a dancer?
Speaker 5: Oh, improved? Well, it would have to be cored. I
Speaker 5: mean if we start from yeah, we start from if
Speaker 5: we start from ground zero, you know?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 5: But did we? But did we? I mean, do you
Speaker 5: remember those gold in Main outfits?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 1: Oh my god?
Speaker 5: Do you remember Justin Justin Bieber just trying to just
Speaker 5: try and get in the hole just yes, in the light.
Speaker 8: Yes, but again, don't you just want to squeeze him
Speaker 8: like the Swedes.
Speaker 3: And Windy City like shows up with like everywhere you
Speaker 3: can move your body?
Speaker 5: I see everywhere there? Do you remember though, also in
Speaker 5: Valerie that we named dance like we had the Andrew
Speaker 5: Mitchell like we named steps because it was like this
Speaker 5: we did like the steady canst like we we certainly
Speaker 5: would make up names and funny things, and like we
Speaker 5: had all of our inside jokes while we're doing all
Speaker 5: these dance moves, just that no one else really knew
Speaker 5: what our secrets were that were going on. Most don't.
Speaker 5: I don't know, what do you guys think?
Speaker 2: I think answer, Chord's a good one.
Speaker 1: Churt's definitely a good one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I second that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I heard that.
Speaker 5: Soon.
Speaker 2: Sorry.
Speaker 3: Somebody asked how long did it take to come up
Speaker 3: with the choreography for Paradise by the Dashboard Light and
Speaker 3: how long did it take for everyone?
Speaker 1: So long?
Speaker 2: It's interesting that has become such a to Like people
Speaker 2: mentioned Paradise by a Dashboard Light a lot.
Speaker 3: Well, and then Adam Anders was and Tim Davis had
Speaker 3: both mentioned it on the show talking about how their
Speaker 3: process for creating the music was twenty four hour twenty
Speaker 3: four hour cycle for them, So that was crazy.
Speaker 5: It was a that was a hard one. That was
Speaker 5: one of the that was one of the like we
Speaker 5: needed to get a couple. I think that's when we
Speaker 5: had some skeleted.
Speaker 2: I think we did. I think so too.
Speaker 5: I think we did was it was because we couldn't
Speaker 5: get everybody at this. It was like we would have
Speaker 5: the guys and then we would have the That one
Speaker 5: was hard. That one was also hard because I feel
Speaker 5: like there was also these times where it was like
Speaker 5: we were getting challenged and we were getting better, and
Speaker 5: it was like, okay, well we have to we have
Speaker 5: to be good and like.
Speaker 2: It looked like it.
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, because it was like and and part of
Speaker 5: that was like, well they can do this, like we're
Speaker 5: going to make that, We're going to make this like
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, Bohemian Rhapsody, because they're giving us this
Speaker 5: whole And then that was.
Speaker 2: H is the greatest thing ever.
Speaker 1: I mean, his best in the montage and the whole thing.
Speaker 1: It's just one of my things.
Speaker 5: The craziest, the hardest, the hardest. Again, that was one
Speaker 5: of those like I think Zach probably begged fifteen times,
Speaker 5: like what is our edit? What is our edit? What
Speaker 5: is our edit? No edit, there's gonna and not even
Speaker 5: not even what's our edit because again, like you listen
Speaker 5: to everybody, Andrew Mitchell's like we didn't even have enough
Speaker 5: film to get it, like you.
Speaker 9: Can't you can even film it on one on one case,
Speaker 9: and we knew it was going to be intercut with
Speaker 9: Diana giving a baby, right like our Quinn is giving
Speaker 9: the baby.
Speaker 5: So it was more of like when are we going
Speaker 5: to have those? Like when are you gonna go? Because
Speaker 5: if we could take out thirty seconds of maybe a
Speaker 5: dance portion would be helpful, but it was like, we
Speaker 5: don't know, so we did the whole thing. That was
Speaker 5: the most disastrous number in the sense of that was
Speaker 5: the only dancer to ever get hit. Again, it was
Speaker 5: not Andrew's fault, but you know, he told like the
Speaker 5: story it was, you know, I would give my speech
Speaker 5: all every single time camera wins. If you were if
Speaker 5: the camera is behind you, you stop, you turn around
Speaker 5: and you look. And it was more and it was
Speaker 5: like an amazing dancer who was just always used to
Speaker 5: be fulling, full out, It's like, no, you're not full
Speaker 5: out now that court of thing we lost, So okay,
Speaker 5: so we built. So that was the first time. We
Speaker 5: also built this massive sort of different risers because again
Speaker 5: that was like Zach's like, I don't want to do
Speaker 5: the same thing. I can't have the same thing. How
Speaker 5: I can't make a six minute number actually look like anything.
Speaker 5: If we're just going to be on risers. So we
Speaker 5: had the center risers and then we had these platforms. Well,
Speaker 5: the stage that we shot this on didn't have enough.
Speaker 5: They didn't have a backstage wing. So we had choreographed
Speaker 5: it that the dancers were going to be going running
Speaker 5: on and off, and so they'd go have this backstage part,
Speaker 5: which some like there was no it was a really
Speaker 5: really small theater. So and that was just to be
Speaker 5: more creative, like we'd have people exited. Then it'd be
Speaker 5: like all the guys come on and all the girls
Speaker 5: like it was just to be so then the dancers
Speaker 5: had to crawl and so and again, thank goodness, no
Speaker 5: regulations like that. We didn't have to have railings because
Speaker 5: nowadays you would have to have a railing on the
Speaker 5: size frisiers that we had. Even the risers you guys
Speaker 5: danced on. I don't know if you guys on some
Speaker 5: of them. Later on, when they got a little taller,
Speaker 5: we would have like a back one like in black,
Speaker 5: and we'd have some railings on it. I don't know
Speaker 5: if you guys remember that stuff. But technically you can't
Speaker 5: really go above like three feet without having safety railings.
Speaker 5: So these risers were like about three or four feet,
Speaker 5: and so then the dancers you can't walk under because
Speaker 5: you're seen, so some of them would like hand crawl.
Speaker 5: And Jenny Robinson, who was first, who also went on
Speaker 5: her first shore, she jammed her fingers running and like
Speaker 5: so she always she's still like she has a permanent
Speaker 5: damage from it. I remember she also didn't want to
Speaker 5: fix it, and she didn't want to stop dancing from crawling.
Speaker 5: And then we lost Vivian with her head. I mean, shoot,
Speaker 5: they came, but there's a point where and then we
Speaker 5: lost another dancer. He was like getting dizzy. We don't
Speaker 5: really know what happened, and was like I just couldn't
Speaker 5: make it. So Nick who was like in no parts
Speaker 5: of this. So Nick Driego was like he was like
Speaker 5: in the least amount of the dance in the sense
Speaker 5: of like I wasn't he was in an intersection. All
Speaker 5: of a sudden he became superher euro dancer. At number one,
Speaker 5: we would literally like drag a girl on and then
Speaker 5: as those guys went off, he would have to stay
Speaker 5: and then do the next section. So like for six
Speaker 5: minutes he was like like the first half of the
Speaker 5: day did nothing and then was like cool like the
Speaker 5: hero Dancer. It was it was insane. It was just insane,
Speaker 5: and it's vocal adrenaline, so it has to have those
Speaker 5: lifts and things, which we're always so fun because Zach
Speaker 5: is the best partner ever and like with his you know,
Speaker 5: because tumblr cheerlead all that stuff. So he would just
Speaker 5: we would just flip and throw around and we would
Speaker 5: make up things or he would see something like insane,
Speaker 5: like some crazy like contortionist thing that they would do,
Speaker 5: and he's like, do you think we could do them?
Speaker 5: Like let's try our version, and like we would make
Speaker 5: up these corkscrew next things and and and then I
Speaker 5: think it was why like we were tough on vocal
Speaker 5: adrenalinsts because we could do it. Yeah, So like we
Speaker 5: would we would demonstrate it all for them, and then
Speaker 5: like when they couldn't do it, it's like what's wrong?
Speaker 5: And like I would jump on the guy or I
Speaker 5: would like pick up the girl, and they're like, okay,
Speaker 5: well you're doing this wrong, you know. And so like
Speaker 5: we could help them get through all that sort of
Speaker 5: stuff you can.
Speaker 2: We could never do on us on them exactly, yes.
Speaker 5: But then but Dashboard was basically your guys' vocal adrenaline,
Speaker 5: Like that was we're doing that, you guys, remember, and
Speaker 5: you guys were dragging each other and doing fun lifts
Speaker 5: and crawling.
Speaker 3: Before we let you go, after which you will please
Speaker 3: come back. I'm not doing anything great, We'll pop you
Speaker 3: in like for like the big regional sessionals, nationals.
Speaker 1: What does the feeling that Well, I knew you were
Speaker 1: going to.
Speaker 5: Ask you this because you asked everybody this, and it's
Speaker 5: a hard one. I mean it's like everything everybody's already
Speaker 5: said is like ditto to it. All right, So it's
Speaker 5: you know, it's family and it's your heart, and it's
Speaker 5: like and I know I already said, like I'm so
Speaker 5: protective of it, like I'm so, but I don't know,
Speaker 5: like Brad's like it's like your child, you know, like
Speaker 5: it's just it's such a special space that was like
Speaker 5: it was just ours, you know, it was like it
Speaker 5: was just something that was it was just ours. And again,
Speaker 5: it's like listening to you guys talk on this podcast
Speaker 5: and like you're sharing so much of the amazingness of it,
Speaker 5: but I still feel like when I'm listening, I'm like
Speaker 5: I get it, Like I I get everything that you're saying.
Speaker 5: I was right there, I reliving it, laughing through it,
Speaker 5: laughing when you guys are laughing about rehearsals and falling
Speaker 5: off the things. And when vitamin D was really like
Speaker 5: Vitamin D like neck, you were psycho, you were psycho
Speaker 5: number and I just remember me like just stop, like
Speaker 5: it's okay, I can't, I can't get It's just it
Speaker 5: was it was so special. I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 5: it's just it's like it's just a part of my heart.
Speaker 5: It's just and so unique. Like and and again I
Speaker 5: think I base everything off of what I do. You know,
Speaker 5: like I've learned. I learned so much and I take
Speaker 5: that everywhere I go and I try and bring that atmosphere.
Speaker 5: And that was what was so fun. Is like when
Speaker 5: I went to Lucifer and Z was playing playback, so
Speaker 5: I was like, hit it. Just say the same things,
Speaker 5: like you're going to be with people, and you know,
Speaker 5: Brazil Andre was like cleaning the floors and we got
Speaker 5: there and I was like and he's like, Brooke, what
Speaker 5: do you need? You need some you need some sprite,
Speaker 5: and like yeah, we need some spry, you know, because
Speaker 5: like already need sprite sprite or spit, like what are
Speaker 5: you going to do? Right? That's but it's you know,
Speaker 5: it's just it really is. It's just like it's just
Speaker 5: a piece of my heart. I love it. I love
Speaker 5: you guys. And I don't know I would I would
Speaker 5: do it all over again. I think it would be
Speaker 5: harder because I think we would all be, like.
Speaker 2: It was, we didn't know what we were getting ourselves
Speaker 2: into now knowing it's yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, but it's like to have but again, to
Speaker 5: have that opportunity to be doing so much and doing
Speaker 5: all this and yeah, and I got it was always
Speaker 5: that the end result was it was just always felt successful,
Speaker 5: you know, like I feel like you did something and
Speaker 5: you were just so happy, like we did that, like
Speaker 5: what we pulled off, We just pulled off. You know,
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, it's snowing, or I got to hug Chewbacca,
Speaker 5: like do you know how like life changing like toast
Speaker 5: Oh my god. I was actually sitting in the Powerhouse.
Speaker 5: It was one of those mornings where you like, don't
Speaker 5: check the one liner, and I'm just like waiting for
Speaker 5: things to do, and I was like, I wonder, what's
Speaker 5: happening on set today, and I was like are you
Speaker 5: And I started running. I ran to set and like
Speaker 5: they were like he's gone, and it was like like
Speaker 5: literally start crying like I'm so just well kind of
Speaker 5: and then like they're like he's maybe checking out at
Speaker 5: you know, base, and I like run base and I'm
Speaker 5: like no, And then he was off with Jim doing
Speaker 5: like a tour and I was like walking over to
Speaker 5: you know, the water tower, like it was just like
Speaker 5: so sad, and.
Speaker 10: They're like and this is Brooke, one of our choreographers
Speaker 10: and me, I was like and then he's like and
Speaker 10: it's been so great here. I think I'm going to
Speaker 10: get back into a costume and like and you guys.
Speaker 5: Were filming and you guys didn't know like that Chebacco
Speaker 5: was going to call it like it was doing the
Speaker 5: Christmas episode and okay, so like so like I'm like
Speaker 5: like for the rest of the day like this, and
Speaker 5: then I was like waiting and then I came and
Speaker 5: like I was brand and I was like front Rod
Speaker 5: like came to surprise you guys, and like you guys
Speaker 5: all got your picture and then they're like we have
Speaker 5: time for crew and I was the first one up
Speaker 5: on the stage literally like jumped in three seconds and
Speaker 5: like hands wrapped around and my hair was like total
Speaker 5: Chewbacca color at the time because it wasn't because it
Speaker 5: is now, and I was like, this is this is
Speaker 5: my home. This is really like ship Like that was
Speaker 5: so fun Like it was just so fun. It was
Speaker 5: so funny, like like literally sitting there, it's like me
Speaker 5: and Zach and Ryan like sitting on the lawn of
Speaker 5: like the White House, like right, just just chilling right now,
Speaker 5: like I don't know what's happening. Why are what are
Speaker 5: we doing here?
Speaker 1: Why are we here?
Speaker 5: What are we here?
Speaker 2: It was like the most severe case of imposter syndrome
Speaker 2: at every turn, like to these places, yes us, okay.
Speaker 5: You know, and then again it's like just to do
Speaker 5: it with my best friend, like my absolutely best friend
Speaker 5: and still is and you know, I tell him every day.
Speaker 5: I'm like, so you know, when you need an assistant,
Speaker 5: like stop calling everybody else, Like I don't need to
Speaker 5: do this stuff by myself, Like I so rather just
Speaker 5: pick up your pick your papers. Like this is way
Speaker 5: too like it's just way too fun to do this,
Speaker 5: Like these jobs are supposed to be fun.
Speaker 2: Yes, they need to be for those long hours.
Speaker 5: They need to.
Speaker 1: Be always be a pair.
Speaker 5: In my end, Yeah, yeah, well the old and I
Speaker 5: think the only thing that we never did which Glee,
Speaker 5: which is like we never did talking dialogue and dancing,
Speaker 5: which I'm kind of happy and thankful because I did
Speaker 5: my first job where it was a fourteen page dialogue
Speaker 5: dancing and it was so hard, I mean so hard
Speaker 5: and different because because think about this, you guys never
Speaker 5: had to like sting and dance and talk or something,
Speaker 5: or be at a party and have dancing going around,
Speaker 5: or be in the You never had to be in
Speaker 5: the middle of a number and have dialogue, so you've
Speaker 5: never had a conversation because when you have conversations happen
Speaker 5: in the middle of dance numbers, all the music goes away, right,
Speaker 5: and then you have to like dance to a thumper
Speaker 5: and do all that stuff. So after doing that for
Speaker 5: another show, and I was thinking about that when coming
Speaker 5: into here, I was like, thank goodness, we never had
Speaker 5: to talk and sing at the same time, because that
Speaker 5: would have been that's a whole other beast. Like we
Speaker 5: got to just sing and play, you know, and not
Speaker 5: actually not show. No, we did we did it.
Speaker 2: Yeah did you guys ever?
Speaker 5: We never? Oh no, we did roller skate. You guys
Speaker 5: didn't roller skate?
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we skated?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, we did, Chris ourself. Yeah, I also I
Speaker 5: also it was horrible roller skating, but in the.
Speaker 3: Chair because I can't roller skate to save my life.
Speaker 3: Well at least I had your wheelchair to hold on to.
Speaker 5: Yes, yeah, yeah, but oh we did have to hire
Speaker 5: dancers to roller skate that also. They were professional. And
Speaker 5: then we got there and it's like, what that's when
Speaker 5: you don't lie as you resident special I still give them.
Speaker 5: I still will because you it's like you're can rollers.
Speaker 5: And then when it's like no, you're on a stage
Speaker 5: and you only get twelve feet in each direction, you
Speaker 5: have to actually be precise and know how to stop
Speaker 5: and know how to spin. And then like that's that
Speaker 5: is a different skill than I can roller skate.
Speaker 6: Oh you know?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, put skates on.
Speaker 5: Oh my god. I love you guys so much.
Speaker 2: Thank you for spending so much time with us.
Speaker 5: Seriously, seriously, I'm do this all the time. I will
Speaker 5: answer any questions whatever. Yeah, we're going to use send
Speaker 5: me texts when you guys are doing. Yeah, you guys,
Speaker 5: I know you guys always send text to people when
Speaker 5: you're doing things, ask me questions. So I'm like, oh,
Speaker 5: I know that, I know that answer.
Speaker 2: Okay, good, amazing. Love you so much, Thank you so
Speaker 2: much for doing this.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much to Brooke for spending all of
Speaker 3: that time with us fools to tell us everything that
Speaker 3: we didn't know. I mean, wow, I'm truly just so
Speaker 3: grateful for them. They were, like I feel, it felt
Speaker 3: like without them, like my limbs would be like yeah,
Speaker 3: like a separate from my body and like I don't
Speaker 3: wouldn't know what to say or do because they're just
Speaker 3: they were truly our champions, our cheerleaders, our our mom
Speaker 3: or dad, our confidants, our friends.
Speaker 1: So I'm just so grateful to be able to see
Speaker 1: her again.
Speaker 2: I mean, we talk about us like being good and
Speaker 2: then losing our sanity and being good and all that.
Speaker 2: We wouldn't have made it as long as we did
Speaker 2: in a good place without them. I mean we saw
Speaker 2: them before the show started shooting, during the show, then
Speaker 2: on tour, like we were always with them, and just
Speaker 2: they they build such a great community of dancers with themselves.
Speaker 2: They make us feel part of that. And it's just
Speaker 2: all such good, good people that we're all still friends
Speaker 2: with today, and I'm just so thankful to have them
Speaker 2: in our lives and that we got to do that
Speaker 2: experience with them, because I cannot imagine what it would
Speaker 2: have been like without those personalities.
Speaker 1: Exactly wouldn't have married it.
Speaker 2: No, thank you, Brooke, Thank you Zach who is here inspiras.
Speaker 1: We love you, Zach, And that's what you really missed.
Speaker 2: Bye bye. Thanks for listening and follow us on Instagram
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